"mwringe" wrote : so I can't just add it to the beans.xml file and it doesn't have a direct reference to the mircocontainer kernel. | Sure you do. ;-) Check the glue code that I wrote for Seam/webBeans: - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/mc-int/trunk/servlet/ "mwringe" wrote : | Is there some sort of preferred method to programmatically deploy an object into a microcontainer in this situation? | You can either get the MainDeployer / DeployerClient from * the Controller via "MainDeployer" name (which is too impl specific) * DeploymentUnit::getMainDeployer Then simply create pre-determined deployment (StructureContext + metadata attachments), and deploy it as any other deployment via DeployerClient. But if you just wanna deploy some bean, install it directly against KernelController. Just make sure you remove/undeploy it at some listener's undeploy. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4229268#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...